Rooturn- Serial Fiction, Part Two- The Agreement

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Screenshot2025-11-23at10.56.49AM.png — The second part of Chapter 1.

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The clouds bunched and stretched across the sky like sheep herded by a lazy child. The smell of wet earth was rising already, though the rain hadn't yet begun.

The children snapped beans faster now, their fingers moving without quite realizing it, drawn along by the steady beat of Bob's tapping drum.

Little Pemi, crowned with her lopsided braid of grass, looked up suddenly, frowning in deep concentration.

"Miss Nettie," she said, "how do Attuned get babies?"

The other children giggled, but not cruelly. It was a good question, after all.

Everyone knew how it worked among the Resistors. It was more or less the old-fashioned way, with kisses and marriages and noisy houses full of squalling infants.

But in the Attuned village, babies just... appeared.

Nettie smiled, slow and secretive, like a storyteller about to unwrap a favorite old memory.

"That's a bigger story," she said. "A Rooturn story. And lucky for you sprigs, it's a good one."

She laid aside her snapped beans, brushing her hands clean on her apron.

Bob leaned back on his elbows, looking up at the thickening clouds, with a private grin he tried to suppress.

Marnie sliced another turnip with a crisp snap, but said nothing, only giving a small grunt that meant, Go on then, tell it right.

And so Nettie began…

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